荣枯互为倚伏，心田开合一切由己，顺与逆顺其自然，何必去问别人？长与短，四时运行，长寿或短命，一切都是自然而成，何必去怪别人。

O que importa não é o que acontece com você, mas o que você faz com o que acontece com você.

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

The very important thing you should have is patience.